Wind drives flames after large Lynn factory blast
A boiler explosion at the P J Harney Shoe Manufacturing company in Lynn injured at least 12 workers. A southeast gale spread the blaze, destroying two acres of the west Lynn district and damaging more than a half dozen factories and 12 homes. Financial loss about 500000. No fatalities as workers were not yet on shift.
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Lynn
Mass
P. J. Harney Shoe Manufacturing Company
Harney
Boston
West Lynn
Charles Street
Escaped prisoner believed a robber at Fort Leavenworth link
Kansas City dispatch reports an early morning robbery near De Soto Kansas where Zona Heckert a night operator at the Santa Fe line was struck with a wagon spoke and robbed of the Shot money drawer. The attacker matches the description of Leonard D Conner who escaped yesterday from Fort Leavenworth.
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Kansas City
Zona Heckert
de Soto
Kan
Santa Fe
Miss Heckert
Leonard D. Conner
Fort Leavenworth
Freight Shed Blaze Destroys Chicago Building
Firemen fought a stubborn blaze that gutted the immense brick freight shed at Harrison Street and the south branch of the river, No. 3 incoming freighthouse of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railway. Loss estimated at 360000. Two men injured as flames threatened nearby structures.
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Chicago
Harrison Street
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway Company
Sixteen Terribly Burned in Rosebud Mine Disaster
Seeleyville Indiana December 6 Two men are dead and 14 seriously injured from a dust explosion at the Rosebud mine east of Seeleyville. The blast trapped 180 miners. 16 men were terribly burned and later sent home to Terre Haute Seeleyville Brazil Staunton Harmony and Knightsville. The mine employs 200 workers and was not seriously damaged. most fatalities avoided as many had already left.
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Seeleyville
Ind
Rosebud
Here
Terre Haute
Brazil
Staunton
Harmony
Knightsville
Henderson County Books To Be Probed
Monmouth Illinois December 6 The Henderson County board of supervisors voted to audit the books of all county officers for the past eight years. J D Diffenbaugh was named committee chairman. Manlove Co, a noted auditing firm, is expected to be hired to audit records and unpaid taxes.
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Monmouth
Knox, Henry
Warren County Board of Supervisors
J. D. Diffenbaugh
Board of Supervisors
Manlove & Co
Schultz Expects A Term In Prison In Shea Trial
Chicago Dec 6 Attys for the defense pressed for admission from Joseph Schultz, yesterday witness, who described slugging non union men and throwing acid eggs at horses, that he was promised inducements to plead guilty Schultz said he acted of his own free will and expected imprisonment.
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Chicago
Joseph Schultz
Schultz
Shah in Persia Lays Near Death as Condition Worsens
Teheran dispatch reports Persia's shah in a semi coma, unable to speak coherently. Medical observers fear rapid progression of dropsical symptoms may soon cause fatal heart involvement.
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Persia
Teheran
Damsch
Treasury seeks to increase small bills through silver certs
Washington reports a marked scarcity of small bills nationwide. The secretary of the treasury urges banks to search vaults for $10 silver certificates and exchange them for smaller denominations to relieve currency strain. He warns banks to act before complaining and notes the need for legislation to let banks boost five dollar notes.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Treasury
Rawlings Boys To Serve Life Terms In Georgia
Atlanta Dec 6 pardon board commuted death sentences of Jesse and Milton Rawlings to life imprisonment for their alleged role in the murder of the Carter children. Their father had been hanged Tuesday for the same crime.
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Atlanta
Jesse
Milton Rawlings
Carter
Rawlings
National Trotting board upholds Major Delmar win
New York December 6 The National Trotting association board of review dismissed charges against E F Smathers owner driver of Major Delmar, ruling the Memphis gold cup was won on merit after a dispute over alleged drugging at the October 19 1904 Memphis meet. The case followed an injunction that paused suit by the Memphis association until yesterday for fact finding.
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New York
Board of Review
National Trotting Association
E. F. Smathers
Lou Dillon
Memphis
C. K. G. Billing
Major Delmar
Memphis Association
Call Money Rate Regulation Proposed by New York Chamber
New York December 6 The chamber of commerce, on motion by Jacob H Schiff, adopted a resolution directing its finance committee to propose measures to better regulate the call money rate on the New York exchange. Schiff noted the vast fluctuations from 5 or 6 percent in morning hours to 25 or 30 percent in afternoons and urged action to curb the condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Schiff
New York Chamber of Commerce
New York
Jacob H. Schiff
Chamber of Commerce Today
Finance Committee
New York Exchange
Schiff
Congress Daily Wrapup Sees Bills And Hearings
Washington reports a busy session with Senate actions on multiple bills and resolutions, and Foraker pressing for immediate action to inform on discharge of Negro soldiers of the 26th Infantry. In the House, measures authorize treasury to duplicate gold certificates, amend banking laws to permit real estate loans by national banks, and set loan limits. Adjournment at 2 55 p.m. until today.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Executive Department
Foraker
26Th Infantry
HOUSE
Nation
Germany Alliance
Treasury
Superseders for Roberts Supreme Court Acts in Kopf Case
Springfield M Dec 6 The supreme court granted a writ of supersedeas to George G Roberts of Chicago who was sentenced to twenty years in the penitentiary for fatally stabbing County Commissioner Kopf in Chicago.
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Supreme Court
Kopf
Chicago
Springfield
George G. Roberts
Nearly Thousand Delegates Meet for Rivers and Harbors Congress
In Washington on December 6, nearly a thousand delegates gathered for the opening session of the National Rivers and Harbors congress. The convention aims to secure a yearly $50,000,000 appropriation from Congress to fund systematic improvement of the nation’s waterways.
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National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Washington
Congress
United States Banking Power Vast Says Ridgley
The 1906 banking power of the United States amounts to 16.46 billion dollars, with foreign banking power at about 21.95 billion. Ridgley urges currency reform to allow national banks to issue uncovered notes as elastic currency, proposing 50 percent of bond covered notes as uncovered, with reserves and a 5 percent guarantee fund, plus a graduated tax to keep the fund good.
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United States
Ridgley
Washington, D
W. B. Ridgley
Mulhall
Clearing House Exchange
Clearing House
Sherer
New York
United
Treasury
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Oberholtzer Pastor Found Guilty by Pastors Jury
Rev C D Oberholtzer of First Baptist Marseilles is declared a fool by a panel of 20 district pastors and guilty on three counts for violent temper, dividing the church, and bringing public scandal upon the congregation. He is barred from future ministerial work.
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Streator
C. D.oberholtzer
First Baptist Church
Marseilles
Ostood
Chicago
Hleven
Osgood
Oberholtzer
India
Domingo scene of more trouble after Puerto Pinata attack
Washington reports that Tomineah Minister Joubert received a fire patch from his government. A party of 12 insurgent leaders gathered at Puerto Pinata were attacked by government forces. Perleota Sulla was killed and the rest of the party arrested.
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Washington
Der
Tomineah
Joubert
Puerto Pinata
Forc
Perleota Sulla
Rv Party
Holsten Said He Would Have Daughter's Blood
In Muscatine Iowa on December 6 the jury for John Holsten's case was seated. Prosecution finished presenting evidence as a neighbor testified Holsten vowed to have his daughter's blood and then pursued her, leading to the murder. Defense claimed Holsten was insane at the time and remained so, arguing lack of legal responsibility.
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Muscatine
Iowa
John Holston
Holsten
Keithysburg
Bessie
Warner
Holeten
Negro work K of P PM tried to lynch on train
Two Texas cowboys aboard a westbound Santa Fe passenger train between Lawrence and Topeka attempted to hang John E B Lewis a Wichita Kansas negro. Three times they looped a rope about his neck but he freed himself each time and jumped from the train to escape. Lewis wore a Knights of Pythias pin and the cowboys said they did not like to see a Negro putting on airs.
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Topeka
Kan
John EB. Lewis
Wichita
Santa Fe
Lawrence
Lewis
Knights of Pythias
Third Bank Official Sentenced for Embezzlement
Chicago on December 6 Haggard Gregerson a former exchange teller at the Milwaukee Avenue State Bank pleaded guilty to embezzling bank funds. He received an indeterminate sentence in the penitentiary making him the third bank official sent to prison.
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Milwaukee Avenue Bank
Stensand and Hering
Chicago
Haggard Gregerson
Milwaukee Avenue State Bank
Gregerson
Prizon
Consistory Private at Rome Amid Security Fears
A consistory in Rome was held privately as Pope precanonized 84 bishops, including Carina Samacen, Archbishop of Strigonia. The pope urged faith amid a storm of violence against the church and warned that threats from urban unrest prompted a closed ceremony for safety.
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Rome
Carina Samacen
Strigonia
Hungary
Viel Jes
Chelar
Roosevelt praise by Japanese press warms many papers
Tokyo dispatch notes most papers eulogize Roosevelt for his stance toward Japan. Asahi welcomes the president's firm justice and predicts Americans will back his righteous policy. The Japanese press regards his views as impartial and in line with Tokyo, while speculation grows over San Francisco school desegregation reactions.
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Tokio
Roosevelt
Asahi
Hlerti
Cost of living at high water mark
Figures from Irving Dec. 1st show a rise in living costs from $106.08 to $108.17 in one month, the highest level since February 1584, indicating a marked advance since November 1st.
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New York
Irving
R. G. Don & Company
Illinois Central Pays $600000 to State Treasury
Springfield reports the Illinois Central railroad paid 600000 dollars to the state treasury, 7 percent of six months earnings on charter lines through Oct 31 1906, the largest six month payment on record. Oklahoma City notes drainage conference with papers and speeches, including Iowa State College engineer Lewie Achhaagh speaking on drainage conditions in Iowa.
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Illinois Central
Treasury
Springfield
Ilinois Central Railroad
Illinois
Iowa
Oklahoma City
Okla
Dor
Lewie E.achhaagh
Iowa State College
Towa
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Shaw
American Bankers' Association
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Beveridee
Dawson
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Judiciary Committee
San Francisco
Indiana
Henderson County Books
Shea
Shah
Board of Pardons
Smathers
Clifton
Ariz
National Board
Arizona Copper Company
Detroit Copper Company
Chase Creek
Joe Threm
Dec
Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock
Kiowa, Comanche
Oklahoma
Roberts
Im- Oberholtzer
Cowboys
Black
Pope
Pontiff
Venred
St. Peters
Jappress
California
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